On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM, Jan Ehrhardt <php...@ehrhardt.nl> wrote:
> PHP 5.3 has reached the real end of life. Will the effect be that from > now on PHP 5.4 will only get security fixes? > > Jan > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Hi, the EOL process for 5.3 is a bit different than for the other versions: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php53eol the release process rfc (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/releaseprocess) governs the releases since 5.4: 2+1 year of support after the initial X.Y.0 release. as pointed out, 5.4 is already past the 2 years of bugfix support, so we should announce it that it is on security fixes only. I guess it wasn't announced because we are trying to keep the EOL times with the new releases, and in an ideal world where we can always perfectly match the 12 month release cycles those would be matching, but based on the last two minors, we can't really keep up with the 12month release cycle, so I think that we should either stick with the release process rfc and announce the extended support and EOL dates based on the original release date, or update the releaseprocess RFC to state that we move into extended support/EOL when the the new version in that year is released. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu
